Northern Briars Rhodesian # 101 *New*

Rhodesian pipes shape are getting very rare. They have always been one of my favorite shapes since the mid 1970's. It was an accompanying shape to the bent Bulldog. I often had them in pairs. But rarely from the same pipe smith.

Not twins but close relations. They both have a half bend, a bowl that from the bottom up widens and 3/4" of the way starts to contract. They both have two indentented rings at their widest point. Which came first into the pipe vocabulary, I have no idea.

Give me a rainy night in the latter part of the year, not too cold, I wear a tweed jacket, a wool/cashmere scarf, a broad brimmed felt, and a classic military style rain coat. The one with a belt & normally light beige.  Add a bent pipe with a nice thick, heavy flake and I am back in foggy London, England, imagining its pre-WWI and "the games a foot", and strange wealthy men keep arriving who have deep secrets buried in their past in South Africa or Rhodesia. The streets are foggy, wet and damp, foot steps are muffled. I hold up my hand, it is blurred by the fog. My associate, taps my shoulder, I listen and faintly we hear footsteps...... 

What other pipe besides a Rhodesian or Bent Bulldog will suffice in such places. And who better to make it than Ian Walker, possibly the last traditional English pipe maker.

Measurements & Details:

Length:  6 1/2" / 165 mm

Bowl Height: 2 3/8" / 61 mm

Bowl Depth: 1 7/8" / 48 mm

I.B.Dia: 7/8" / 22 mm

0.B.Dia: 1 3/4" / 44 mm

Weight: 2.75 oz / 79 gm

Stem: Vulcanite

Filter: None

Finish: Rox Cut (GR5)

Country: England